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The egg that became you was made inside your mother while she was still a fetus inside your grandmother.
A female fetus builds her entire lifetime supply of eggs before she is born. By about 20 weeks she has six to seven million of them. By the day she is delivered the number has already fallen to one or two million, and it keeps falling. Around 400 will ever be released.
Which means that at one moment your grandmother was carrying your mother, and your mother was already carrying the cell that would become you. Three generations in one body at the same time, and only one of them knew about it.
Work out the date and it gets stranger. A woman born in 1976 came from an egg formed around 1946, three decades before she was born, in a body that was itself unborn.
There is a caveat worth being honest about. An egg carries half your genetic material, so the cell in your grandmother was half of you. And a few studies in mice have raised the possibility that women might make some new eggs in adulthood, though the finding is contested and nobody is rewriting the textbooks.
What is not contested is the timing. Your mother never made that egg, she was assembled around it while the egg sat waiting inside her.
There is one part that has no caveat. The mitochondria, the parts of your cells that make energy, come only from the egg. Yours were in your grandmother's body. If you have a daughter, hers were in yours, formed while you were carrying her and had no idea.
So a woman pregnant with a girl is carrying her grandchildren too, in the most literal sense the phrase allows. Every woman reading this began inside a woman she may never have met, in a body that had not yet been born itself.
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Imagine America telling Muslim citizens: mosques are only for Muslim foreigners. You Americans who converted to Islam must meet secretly in houses.
Imagine Muslims whispering their prayers because the neighbors might report them.
Imagine Muslim children being forced to memorize the New Testament and study Christianity at school.
Imagine the government refusing to recognize their Islamic marriages.
Imagine Muslim parents being prevented from giving their children Muslim names.
Imagine Muslim converts being officially classified as Christians regardless of what they actually believe.
Imagine Muslims having to bury their dead according to Christian rituals.
The outrage would be deafening.
Al Jazeera would broadcast it 24 hours a day. Western newspapers would scream “Islamophobia.” Politicians would demand sanctions. Activists would march. Human-rights organizations would issue reports. Muslim organizations around the world would make it an international cause.
But Moroccan Christians?
Silence.
I eventually had to flee Morocco.
Thousands of Moroccan Christians remain there, living under the same system, waiting for basic religious freedom that Muslims living in America and Europe take completely for granted.
And America, one of Morocco’s closest allies, continues to look the other way while Moroccan Christians are denied fundamental rights.
Apparently religious freedom matters more when the victim belongs to the right religion.
We are not Gaza.
We don’t have armies of activists marching for us.
We don’t have politicians competing to defend us.
We don’t have television networks broadcasting our suffering every night.
We are converts from Islam to Christianity.
And apparently, nobody cares. 2/2
I want to be a normal mom more than anything, but the scars and effects of transition are always there. My chest is flat and painful from surgical alteration. Its a mutilated woman's chest, not a man's. My voice is permanently altered by the testosterone and I can't yell and call my children over at the park because my vocal chords are too thick and my larynx is crushed. Sometimes, when I kiss them, I have a beard.
I regret trusting "the experts" or anything trans. I want my body and time and life back.
"The child helped close the wound its own birth made."
Researchers at Fred Hutchinson examined the brains of 59 women after death. In 63 percent of them they found male DNA, almost certainly left behind by a son. The oldest of those women was 94, and the cells were still sitting there.
Around week four or five of pregnancy, before most women have told anyone, a handful of the baby's cells cross into the mother's bloodstream. Some of them never leave. Scientists call it microchimerism, meaning you are carrying a few of another person's cells inside you. Doctors at Leiden University in the Netherlands checked organs from women who had recently been pregnant and found the baby's cells in every single one. Liver, lungs, thyroid, kidneys, bone marrow, skin, heart.
They do not sit idle. When researchers in Ireland biopsied cesarean scars from 70 women, they found the baby's cells living in the skin as ordinary skin cells, making collagen and repair proteins right at the cut. The child helped close the wound its own birth made.
At Mount Sinai, scientists tagged fetal cells with a glowing marker in pregnant mice, then damaged the mothers' hearts. The fetal cells went to the injury. They became heart muscle and the lining of blood vessels. Nobody has proven the human version yet, but doctors have noticed for years that women who develop heart failure around childbirth recover better than almost any other kind of heart failure patient.
In a study of 177 women, fetal cells appeared in the blood of 85 percent of the healthy participants and only 64 percent of the women who had a very early, non-invasive breast cancer. Nobody has worked out yet whether the cells are doing the protecting. The same cells also turn up in Hashimoto's, an immune condition that attacks the thyroid, so this is a gift with complications.
A French team looked at umbilical cord blood in 2021 and found cells belonging to the baby's grandmother in 5 of 28 samples. Cells that crossed one placenta decades earlier had crossed a second one. Three generations of women, alive in a single bloodstream.
Which means the pull a mother feels toward her child has a physical form. It sits in her liver, her heart, and often her brain, and it stays there for the rest of her life.
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They didn’t teach you this in schools
Perspective of a former Muslim coming to the US ...
When I first came to the U.S. to finish school, a professor told us to take an exam at home and simply said, “Don’t use Google or open your books.”
As someone who grew up in the Middle East, I couldn’t believe it. What kind of society trusts people like that?
But over time, I began to understand what I was witnessing.
This wasn’t naivety. This was a high-trust society, something so rare in the world that most people born outside the West have never even seen it.
After the Catholic Church banned cousin marriage, people in the West started marrying outside the family. That forced individuals to move out, build broader social networks, and rely on strangers for daily life.
Trust wasn’t just a virtue, it became a survival mechanism. You couldn’t build a working society unless you believed, at some basic level, that others would do the right thing.
That trust was reinforced by Biblical values.
Add to that the stability of wealth, people didn’t need to cheat or steal to get by. So trust flourished.
That’s why in the West, you can check out at a grocery store with no cashier.
That’s why the government lets you self-report your taxes.
Because here, truth is assumed, until proven otherwise.
But Westerners, sadly, think the rest of the world works this way. It doesn’t, and especially not Islamic societies.
Islamic cultures are low-trust by design, the result of centuries of tribalism, aggressive theological systems, and economic instability.
Islam doesn’t nurture trust. It nurtures surveillance, control, and suspicion.
In the Muslim-majority societies, you’re not even trusted to be alone in a room with your cousin or sister-in-law, because the assumption is you can’t be trusted.
Allah doesn’t trust you. That’s why every move you make must be regulated.
In those societies, deception is excused, even celebrated, especially when used against non-Muslims.
Lying is seen as a tool for survival and advantage.
That’s the mindset many immigrants bring with them.
When they arrive in high-trust Western nations, they don’t see a system to protect, they see a system to exploit.
They take advantage of your honesty, your openness, your kindness.
They see how your society was built on the idea that love believes all things, and they weaponize that belief against you.
This is the most detailed MRI scan of an unborn baby.
At just 20 weeks, she is moving, turning her head, kicking, even standing. Her beating heart is also visible.
Human life is a miracle. 😊❤️🙏
a trans identified girl knows that testosterone will damage her body in the same way that an anorexic girl knows that starving herself will damage her body. it’s a surface level facade of knowing with no actual deeper understanding. neither of these girls are truly prepared for the inevitable confrontation with that reality.
🚨INCREDIBLE: A baby was taken out of the womb at 23 weeks, had a life-threatening tumor removed, and was put BACK INSIDE so she could keep growing.
In one of the most remarkable surgeries ever performed, doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital opened the mother’s uterus at just 23 weeks, partially delivered the tiny baby, cut away a massive tumor that was crushing her heart, then gently placed her back into the womb and sewed everything shut.
The baby, LynLee Hope, continued developing for another 13 weeks and was born healthy near full term.
This is open fetal surgery — one of the most advanced and delicate procedures in modern medicine. Surgeons literally operate on a child who is still supposed to be inside her mother, then return her to finish growing.
A living miracle of skill, courage, and science.
The whole world knew him as the suave, unshakable superstar with the unmistakable voice — the very first James Bond, one of the most famous men on the planet.
But in his final years, far from the cameras, he was something much simpler and more tender: a frail old man, losing his words, being cared for with total devotion by the woman who had loved him for nearly half a century...
His name was Sir Sean Connery.. . And this is the quieter story of how his great love story ended.
For generations of moviegoers, Connery was the ultimate screen icon. The original 007. The commanding presence and rich Scottish burr that defined cool for decades. He was adored by millions the world over, an Oscar winner, a knight of the realm — a man who seemed, on screen, utterly invincible.
But the man behind the legend had come from humble beginnings. Born in Edinburgh in 1930, the young Sean Connery had worked as a milkman, a bricklayer, a lifeguard, and even an artist's model long before Hollywood ever came calling. He never forgot where he came from.
And through all the fame that followed, there was one constant at his side.
Her name was Micheline Roquebrune — a French-Moroccan painter, and the great love of his life. The two of them met, fittingly, over their shared passion for golf, at a tournament in the early 1970s. They came from different countries and different cultures, and yet the connection between them was instant and unmistakable.
They married in 1975. And they stayed together, devotedly, for more than forty-five years.
Through all of it — the red carpets, the global fame, the relentless public attention — Micheline remained Sean's anchor, his partner, and his best friend. Theirs was a rare thing in the world of celebrity: a marriage that just lasted, growing deeper with every passing decade.
When Connery largely stepped away from acting, the couple settled into a peaceful retirement in the Bahamas, far from the bright lights. And it was there, in those later years, that the hardest chapter of their life together began.
Sean Connery had begun to develop dementia.
It is a cruel condition, one that slowly steals a person's memories, their thoughts, and their words. And there was something especially heartbreaking about it striking this particular man — because Sean Connery, of all people, had been famous for his voice. That deep, magnetic, one-of-a-kind delivery was one of the most recognizable sounds in the history of film. And now, little by little, the illness was taking even that away from him.
Watching the person you love change before your eyes, as memory and speech slip away, is one of the most painful journeys anyone can walk. Many people, understandably, find it unbearable.
Micheline did not step back for a single moment.
Instead, she stayed right by her husband's side, every single day, caring for him with endless patience and unconditional love. She made sure the man who had brought so much joy to the world spent his final chapter wrapped in warmth, safety, and steady affection — surrounded, above all, by the certainty that he was deeply loved, even when the words grew scarce.
In May of 2020, the couple marked their forty-fifth wedding anniversary at their Bahamas home. A tender photograph from that day — described as one of the last ever taken of him — would later be shared with the world: Sean and Micheline sitting close together, holding hands, her arm wrapped around him, gazing at him with a lifetime of love in her eyes.
A few months later, on the 31st of October 2020, Sir Sean Connery died peacefully in his sleep. He was ninety years old. And true to everything she had given him, Micheline was right there with him at the end.
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I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
Today marks 250 years since nearly every delegate actually signed the Declaration of Independence
"Do you recollect the pensive and awful silence which pervaded the house when we were called up, one after another, to the table of the President of Congress, to subscribe what was believed by many at that time to be our own death warrants?"
Benjamin Rush wrote ^ in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, recounting August 2, 1776.
"The Silence & the gloom of the morning were interrupted I well recollect only for a moment by Col: Harrison of Virginia who said to Mr Gerry at the table, 'I shall have a great advantage over you Mr: Gerry when we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.' This Speech procured a transient smile, but it was soon succeeded by the Solemnity with which the whole business was conducted.”
56 men pledged their lives, fortune, and sacred honor for our country and our people. They knew they were signing their own death warrant. They did it anyway.
America is our inheritance -- and our inheritance only.
A compilation of babies and their reactions to the bottle
Baby on the Mom bus
🙌
Proof that love doesn’t start at birth—it starts the moment they realize they’re safe.
Captured on camera: the exact split second a baby in the womb smiles after feeling their father’s kiss.
Science can explain the acoustic vibration. It can explain the neurological reflex. But it will never be able to explain the soul.
Before they ever open their eyes to this world, they already know who you are.
Some bonds aren’t created in life. They’re just waiting to arrive. 🤍
We Don't See God for Our Own Good
Every atheist I've debated eventually lands here: if God is real, why can't we see him? I used to fumble this. Then I read 1 Timothy 1:17.
Paul is mid-argument about grace and his own conversion when he breaks suddenly into praise:
"Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever."
"Eternal," "immortal," and "the only God" make sense as praise. But invisible? We don't praise men for being unseen. Why does Paul list it as something as glorious as the majesty and immortality of God?
Unless invisibility is not a limitation. Unless it is out of gracious design.
Paul met the unmediated light of Christ on the road to Damascus, he was knocked into the dirt, and blind for three days. He knows what the alternative to invisible feels like. It produced collapse, not worship. His praise is a survivor's testimony.
When people ask for God to be visible, they don't understand what full divine visibility would actually require.
God is omnipresent in essence. Therefore, total divine visibility fundamentally requires omnipresent visibility.
If God reveals Himself to the fullest extent of His capacity, He must be visible everywhere, at all times.
In the room you closed the door to. In the moment you spent your life believing nobody was watching. A visible, omnipresent God is not majestic; He is psychologically catastrophic. Nobody wants this, not even the devout.
Look at Isaiah 6. The prophet sees merely the hem of God's garment filling the temple, not the full glory of God, just the overflow. His response? "Woe to me, I am undone." A partial glimpse unmade him completely.
God isn't after bland empirical agreement. James already ended that: the demons believe, and tremble.
Intellectual assent is a bar the devil clears daily.
God isn't running a census of the convinced; He is seeking genuine love. And genuine love requires genuine choice, which requires that the object of love not be overwhelming.
This is why women despise love bombing. A man who floods your psychological space until refusal becomes impossible isn't loving you, he is eliminating the conditions for love. The "yes" he extracts is engineered by exhaustion.
God does the exact opposite. He veils His glory precisely so that you retain the dignity of saying no. The love bomber makes himself so large that you have no choice. God makes Himself small enough that you do.
Which brings us directly to the Incarnation.
The Incarnation is God making Himself visible enough to be known, but small enough to be rejected without fuss.
It is the most precise solution to the most precise problem: God doesn't arrive as a sky-filling terror, but as a baby in a manger in a backwater town. You can walk past a carpenter from Nazareth. You cannot walk past the throne of Isaiah 6.
The Bible is already clear that every knee will bow, a day of compelled reality as certain as the sun. But God is not eager for a forced crowd. Right now, He is seeking the single, freely given return of a heart in love.
When an atheist asks why he cannot see God, he is asking a better question than he knows. The answer is not absence. The answer is restraint.
Now one can finally understand why Paul says INVISIBLE, and means it as highest acclaim. It is not a limitation, it is a mercy.
I loved the story of Job in Surah 38. Then I read the actual book of Job and found out what the Quran cut out.
First of all, Job’s story in both books is TOTALLY different. In the Quran, Job knows it’s Satan afflicting him off the start. Imagine writing the story with that spoiler.
The themes are so different too:
Surah 38:42: God tells Job, “Stomp your foot: here is a cool spring for washing and drinking.” That’s the healing. A foot-stomp and a spring.
Job 42:10 says something that rearranged my soul: “The LORD restored the fortunes of Job WHEN HE HAD PRAYED FOR HIS FRIENDS.”
Catch that. Job’s breakthrough didn’t come from a magic spring. It came when a suffering man interceded for the very friends who had tormented him with bad theology for thirty chapters.
The sufferer praying for his accusers. Where have I seen that before?
“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Luke 23:34.
Job is a shadow. The true Sufferer prayed for His tormentors while they were still driving the nails, and restoration flowed out of THAT.
The Quran gave me a spring. The Bible gave me a Savior.
It’s all about Christ.
The first "scientist"
There was no word for what this woman did. So Britain had to make one. 🏴🇬🇧
Mary Somerville's whole schooling was 1 year, at a girls' boarding school in Musselburgh. She left it feeling, in her own words, like a wild animal escaped out of a cage.
After that she taught herself, from the family shelves, by candles they tried to take away. The spark was a puzzle on the back page of a friend's fashion magazine, numbers mixed in with letters. Nobody she asked could explain it. It was algebra, and she wanted more. Custom stopped a woman buying such books, so her brother's tutor bought her Euclid. She worked through it alone, line by line. By 1811 she had taught herself enough to win a silver medal for mathematics.
Then she took on Laplace's Mecanique Celeste, the mathematics of the heavens, in French. Asked to translate it for British readers she did far more. She rebuilt the mathematics inside it, and in 1831 The Mechanism of the Heavens went to print. Cambridge set it in front of its own students. 📜
In 1834 she joined the sciences together. Physics, chemistry, astronomy, light, tides and magnetism, in one book anyone could read. It sold and sold. And it broke open the English language.
The Cambridge professor William Whewell sat down to review it, and no single word covered what she did. Man of science would not do. One had been floated, half in jest, at a science meeting the year before. His review of her book put it into print for the first time. 🔥
Scientist.
The first person the word ever described in print was a Scotswoman with 1 year of school.
A year on, she and Caroline Herschel became the Royal Astronomical Society's first women Honorary Members. 🏛️ Her pages on the wobble in Uranus's orbit helped point John Couch Adams at the hunt that found Neptune in 1846. She mentored a young Ada Lovelace and introduced her to Charles Babbage. In 1866 John Stuart Mill put her name first on his petition to Parliament for women's votes. Oxford named a college for her. And since 2017 her face has sat on the Royal Bank of Scotland's £10 note, printed beside a line from the book that needed a new word.
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1 year of school. A puzzle in a magazine. And a word the whole world uses.
Her word is still in your mouth. Stand a little taller when you say it.
We are the home of British heroes.
There is a place for you with them.
👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 👈
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
Where Christians Count the Costs
✨️ " Je suis un ancien musulman marocain qui a grandi au Maroc et s’est converti au christianisme, et mon histoire ressemble à celle de la plupart des convertis marocains.
Comme pour beaucoup d’entre nous, devenir chrétien signifie que l’on s’expose à davantage de dangers de la part de sa propre famille et de ses amis que de la part du gouvernement lui-même. Beaucoup ont perdu leur famille, ont été menacés, voire agressés.
Nous avons l’impression d’être des citoyens fantômes errant dans un beau pays, incapables même de nous exprimer. Nous prions ensemble en ligne ou dans des églises de maison clandestines et cachons nos Bibles en nous demandant si aujourd’hui est le jour où quelqu’un va le découvrir.
Telle est la réalité, la réalité quotidienne pour des dizaines de milliers d’entre nous, chrétiens marocains convertis de l’islam.
C’est un choix qui a un prix et qui nous isole, mais pour nous qui en avons fait l’expérience, la paix que nous avons trouvée en Christ en vaut largement la peine. "
Crédit vidéo : Moroccan Christian Community
#conversion #islam #Maroc #catholique #JesusChrist #Chrétiens
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